The giant devil ray Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) is not giant, but it is the only spinetail devil ray
Abstract Mobula mobular, a mobulid species once considered a Mediterranean Sea endemic, has received its common name “giant devil ray” based on repeated misidentifications of oceanic manta rays, Mobula birostris, that had strayed into the Mediterranean, where they had never been reported from before...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Marine Biodiversity Records |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41200-020-00187-0 |